Anna Karenina, Book 7 of 8

Anna Karenina (8 volumes) #7

by Leo Tolstoy, Constance Garnett (Translator), Maryann (Narrator)

Anna Karenina, Book 7
Leo TOLSTOY (1828 - 1910), translated by Constance GARNETT (1861 - 1946)
Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. In Book 7, Levin, in town for Kitty’s confinement, finds himself drawn to the corruptive influence of Moscow society. Stiva again presses Karenin to divorce Anna, while Anna, driven by jealousy, becomes increasingly irrational towards Vronsky. (Summary by Mary Anderson and MaryAnn)

Genre(s): Historical Fiction, Romance
Language: English
Group: Anna Karenina (Garnett English Translation)

Genres: Fiction, Romance

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First published April 1, 1877

About the author

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой; most appropriately used Liev Tolstoy; commonly Leo Tolstoy in Anglophone countries) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction. Many consider Tolstoy to have been one of the world's greatest novelists. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer.

His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and anarcho-pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Reviews

[Keith · Rating 4 out of 5]

Took like 800 pages for the book to decide what it's about, but that's ok

[Neha Rajan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Oh, dear. Finishing this part has left an ache in my chest. We first meet Anna as a lovely, delightful woman, and she is still lovely now, but her misery is swallowing her. Her thoughts of Vronsky and their deteriorating love is heartbreaking. Kitty and Levin provide a sweet side story (but even that has few problems) with their new family. Tolstoy is just peeling my heart with this book.

[Eva · Rating 2 out of 5]

looooooong. This might be the fist time a movie would be better than the book. Married to one man and longing for another....sounds great, right? not so much. Didn't finish.

[Madeline Hutcheson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well, that was heart breaking. The mood has drastically changed since Part 1 of the book. Tolstoy is continually breaking my heart with every word he writes.

[Joan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Anna has lost her mind! I don't care how pretty she is.